Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886 by Daniel J. Schroeter

Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886

Cambridge Middle East Library

Daniel J. Schroeter

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Essaouira was founded n 1764 by Sultan Sidi Muhammad b. Abdullah as his port for developing trade with Europe. Through a group of Jewish middlemen, it served as a link between Europe, Morocco and su-Saharan Africa. In the eighteenth and nineteenth...

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